Carrier Books

Absolutely loved this book, so much so that I had a hard time giving it away to a child for a gift. Terrific story line and illustrations.

A cute story about a persistant cow scaring the mailman daily. It is a fairly short story, but very cleverly illustratedMillie Waits for the Mail. Just right for bedtime.

This delightful book tells the story of a milk cow whose sole joy is startling the mailman. The mailman soon comes up with a plan that changes everyone's mail experience. This cute story has fun pictures and makes adults and kids laugh.

Oh, how we love a good barnyard book, and -- could it be? -- we may have found our favorite of all time in this winsome tale. Millie is a milk cow with a penchant for mischief: her favorite hobby is to scare the stuffing out of the poor mail carrier, resulting in a string of damaged deliveries to one irritated farmer lady. The bedraggled mailman finally comes up with an ingenious plan, but things quickly go awry, leading to a crazy chase scene that leaves everyone a little worse for wear. Will Millie redeem herself? Let's just say Millie's got a few surprises to deliver! (And while Millie may be the milk cow with the mostest, check out her chicken friends, who do their best to steal the show.)

We are full time Rv'rs and love this atlas. Very handy with low overpass information for each state and truck routes clearly labeled for each state. Great collection of maps I highly recommend it.

This is a very factual atlas with loads of information that a trucker needs on the road. Well worth the purchase price, the laminated pages are great for highlighting, and then erasing after your route if finished. Highly recommended.

Great atlas. No truck driver should be without one. Excellent buy at Amazon, too.

This was a gift from a long-time trucker to a brand new trucker. It is a useful tool that belongs in every commercial vehicle. Don't skimp, get this version with the sturdy pages.

I had read "The Carrier of Ladders" in a college class in the 1980s, and recall not being particularly impressed. Clearly, I wasn't ready for Merwin's supremely focused and near-mystical artistry. I purchased this collection recently after hearing a recording of Merwin reading "The Last One" from "The Lice." What is most remarkable is his ability to express the most complex thoughts in simple language, and often, in very short pieces. By that I mean, there are probably no words in any of these poems that would not be readily understood by an intelligent ten-year-old. Merwin's sentence structure and imagery, however, are of the highest order, and merit the most careful reading to fully absorb his meaning. The overall effect is so unique and astonishing, as to be akin to magic, especially in the later books when Merwin eschews punctuation. After reading these remarkable works, I have no doubt as to Merwin's place in the canon of great poets.

this book was like merwin pouring his heart and soul onto paper, evoked emotions and memories of long ago!

Merwin touches the universal with specifics. Merwin's book bears a simplicity lacking in much of what we do today. His word choice in these poems rarely indicates they were written in the 1970's, but the style is poignantly modern nonetheless. As subjects, Merwin takes nature, aging and friendships. He peppers these with haunting feelings of hollowness, biblical allusions, and the occasional phrase that I cannot reconcile to the poems containing it. With Merwin, though, I remains content and know that a little ambiguity at the edges will keep me returning to the poem year after year.

I suggest reading on, because I have a small but appropriate few sentences to write about Merwin. I first came across Merwin when I was assigned to find a poet I liked who was still living for a poetry class. That is to say, not living for my poetry class in particular, but, a poet still alive, so my known favorites, Solomon of the Superlative Song, William Morris, Eugene Fields or Henry W. Longfellow, writers of, among other things nursey rhymes from my chldhood, nor John Keats fulfilled this alive requirement. As a result, I found myself looking to the song lyrics of the 60s and 70s I'd listened to growing up, my father being a pseudo-hippie, him not knowing that I was actually listening to the words. I say this because it is precisely this music which encouraged me to look into poetry. Unfortunately, my professor was not about to accept song lyrics from Jethro Tull or Queen, though members of the bands might still be living, which was good for me, or I never would have discovered Merwin. It was the first time I opened a book of poetry and found what I was feeling written the way I thought. Suddenly whatever feelings merely drifting at the edges of my subconscious which I had no real way of dealing with were right there on the page before me as though someone had read my mind. It was not eerie, at all, either -- it was just like being an adolescent and literally feeling one's feelings being relayed by rock and roll, or any kind of music for all the world to hear, and glad someone finally understood and was on your side. And so you go out and buy the tape, becasue it's like hearing a good friend's voice, perhaps one that relieves you of tension, or helps you formulate thoughts on the order of the world and your place in things, a friend to reassure and support you. That's what these poems are like, friends that you can read again and again, and be reassured that there is someone out there who understands you, and who can voice what you are thinking when you can't, and these revelations you can keep to yourself, or more likely share with the world, for everyone should have such a friend.

Although I had gotten my feet wet using Ableton Live 4, I didn't realize what I was missing until I read this book. I am now much faster and can do a lot of really cool stuff that I didn't even realize was possible with Live before reading this book. It's also much easier to read than other technical manuals I've read, written in an engaging, conversational style that is easy to understand while imparting some pretty deep knowledge. Actually inspired me to dig into Live and try what I was learning. I highly recommend this one!!

This is a really a great book to 1) help you learn Live 4 better, 2) get better in-depth coverage of some old and new areas in Live, 3) see new ways of working with Live, and 4) have a great guide to supplement the Ableton provided manual.

I've been getting a lot out of Live since Live 3, and this book has been a great tool in quickly learning some of the new features of Live 4, as well as picking up a lot of great tips.

It's written well, and put together for the person who wants to get a lot of tutorial-style info, methods to use Live quicker and smarter, and get even more musical goodness out of Live.

Very happy I bought this book, an easy 5 star recommendation.

Enjoy!

Tom

Having used this program for quite some time, I thought I pretty much knew everything it could do. Boy, was I wrong. Chad Carrier brilliantly guides you through all the incredible features of this software, and he does it in a way that doesn't leave you scratching your head. I was surprised to discover just how much this program can do. If you are a musician or a producer, Ableton Live is one of the greatest new music making tools to come along in years. This book does an incredible job of explaining all the many features in Live 4, and I highly recommend both the software and this book for anyone who has ever wanted to get into making music on their computer. I'm inspired. OK, back to the studio!

Great book.....Highly detailed deck plan.The Aircraft Carrier Victorious (Anatomy of the Ship) what about other aircraft carriers and amphibious carriers (British, American, Japanese)?

This is part of a series of books called Anatomy of the Ship. Like the others in the series it is a whole book describing one ship of the class in great detail.

HMS Victorious was one of a class of six carriers built by the British in the late 1930's. They were built in compliance with the Washington treaty of 1921 so were limited to 23,000 tons. Compared with American carriers of the time, the Victorious had an armored flight deck. This proved of considerable value when the ship was hit by Kamikaze planes while operating with the US 5th Fleet in the Pacific.

This book is largely a series of professional drawing of the ship (122 pages), combined with photographs (15 pages). In addition there is a narrative description of the construction, modifications, and action life of the ship which served for more than 30 years and went through numerous refits as the planes became heavier and faster.

This book is magnificent. This vessel served nearly four decades. The detail shows lines drawings of every refit, every aircraft, how the arresting wires and catapaults worked, the life boats and all armaments. Wonderful. The most photographs of all this series that I have seen.

"BUZZ" truly takes off!! The authors of this wonderful new book offer one a unique excursion to an insectoid universe paralleling our own...The photographs are astounding, revealing the beautiful and the bizarre in incredible, illuminating detail- insect images that continually astound, beguile and startle.
The book also presents a fascinating accompanying text that is compelling in its vast sweep and variety - literary, historical, cultural,scientific- a rich compendium of insect lives, loves and lore, both serious and whimsical.
I would highly recommend this book to readers of all ages who are curious about the world we share with the insects that creep, crawl and cavort around us!

This book reminds us we needn't invent science ficiton aliens to horrify and delight the human imagination. Every page of BUZZ provides that "sweet sensation of horror," that "shivery fascination with monsters" that so delights the likes of sociobiologist E.O. Wilson, who has made his famous career studying ants. And ants are in here, as well as flies, spiders, beetles, wasps and scores of other impossibly strange, fascinating invertebrates. They are grouped in this book because this "alien" universe is our own. All of these creatures live around, and sometimes right ON us.
For which we should rejoice, as the author, Discover editor Josie Glausiusz, eloquently reminds us. Without many of these insects, our beautiful green world would be impossible for us to inhabit. Insects pollinate our crops, feed everyone from birds to fish (and even us), recycle the bodies of the dead and the excreta of the living. They give us honey, beeswax, silk, and the stunning delights of butterfly wings and cricket song. And they have stirred human imaginations for millennia, the muse inspiring great works in every sort of art, from Biblical passages on mosquitoes and ants to Rimsky-Korsakov's dazzling "The Flight of the Bumblebee."
Bugs are good. Of the estimated 9 million species, we learn, only perhaps 1.5 percent of them cause us any problems. Granted, that small percentage includes some that can be seriously annoying--lice, mosquitoes, bed bugs. They're in here, too--but even they can seem pretty enchanting, when illuminated by Glausiusz's lively, fact-packed prose and the electron miscrope that yields the book's breathtaking photographs.
This is the sort of book you'll often read aloud to anyone else in the room--and if no one is there you'll have to call someone up. "Hey--did you know that the Colorado potato beetle was once the focus of a failed German plot to target Britain with bug-bombs?" Need a recipe for locusts, or presentation ideas for serving Superworm larvae? That's in here, too. On these pages, you'll meet bugs who eat skin flakes (house dust mites), bugs who cure skin ulcers (the maggots of the green blowfly) and bugs who kick footballs, draw chariots and turn carousels (fleas.)
Some of these critters are downright cute. Take the drugstore beetle on page 47, hiding coyly behind a breadcrumb. (Its Latin name, we learn, means "hidden.") The Indian meal moth looks positively pensive in its portrait atop a raisin. Nearly every page features a stunning portrait by Munich-base photogrpaher Volker Steger. But most of them, taken with a scanning electron microscope and computer-colorized to distinguish the insects' features, portray a wierd majesty that outshines even that of the dinosaurs. For unlike those extinct giants, these minaitures live among us daily, a source of deep and thrilling mystery near at hand.

Absolutely fabulous book -- constantly amazed me at the myriad strange interactions between us humans & insects. It seemed as though every page reveals something new, entirely unexpected, and jaw-dropping. The writing is extremely clear, and makes for a very easy read, but doesn't spare those juicy little tidbits & details that really make it fun. I went back & picked up an extra copy for a nephew -- great gift suggestion.

This book was absolutly riveting, I just loved the nonstop action, definetly a good buy

I have just recently read Carrier by Keith Douglass and I greatly enjoyed it. His style and fast pace use of action reminds me of Tom Clancy'searly work. A great discovery for me and I wait for Keith's other books to arrive.

I am a great fan of the Kieth Douglass Carrier series. I particularly enjoyed reading the first novel of the Carrier series,Carrier. It is a prefect blend of the Navy portraying their effectiveness in perfect unison during a crisis situation. The novel gives one a clear and crisp view of what United States Navy life islike in most aspects. The novel is fast paced, has loads of action, detailed flying procedures, and battle scenarios. Most characters are model naval personnel, from the attitude, to the way they handle any situation that they are put up against. I particularly enjoyed the way Douglass choreographed the battles, all the way from the man pulling the chains, to the man flying the $30 million dollar F-14 Tomcat. It is very emotional, and will make one feel that they are in the battle themselves. Overall, it is a spirited and patriotic novel that makes one want to join the Navy, or at least respect even more, after they finish.

I identified with Joe: he is about the same age as me, we both loved aports as children (his listening the football games on the radio reminds me of (audio) taping games as a child. I remember watching those OSU vs Michigan games (like the one where Woody Hayes had a 'fit' and started throwing the yard markers; this was mentioned in the book)...
I took my time reading (in bed each night)this because i enjoyed it alot. A couple things that happened were kind of far fetched (like him recognizing a 'old' player...).
I was really affraid towards the end, that he was going to die somehow. I think that I had a little 'breakdown' about the same time as I read about Joe having one. Mine was related to sports too; "Illinois' '05 NCAA basketball tournament"; I kept thinking about this constantly and kindof 'went crazy' when they beat Lousiville and then depressed like I knew that they would lose to KN; Joe and I have a few things in common.
Incidently, the copy I got (not from amazon) was signed by the author.

Admirers of Ray Murphy's The Siege of Gresham who've beenwondering about what else this manic wordsmith has up his sleeve maybe surprised--& impressed--to find that in Empire & Victory the writer shows himself to be master of quite another mode. In this spacious & heartfelt novel we follow the career of Joe Pakotas, full of hungers & angers fueled by his bleak midwestern childhood. Dazzled by the grace of a University of Michigan tailback, Joe leaves the known world behind & sets out across an America where people hustle, suffer & dream. The faces of this Greyhound landscape are given a vivid, Whitmanlike presence as we follow Joe, hurt, hoping & chasing after dreams he can't quite make out but can't abandon, either. Don't be fooled by the football photo on the cover; this is a book about more serious games & the honesty with which Murphy portrays the desperation around his protagonist makes his affirmations all the more persuasive. Score one more for this writer who increasingly bears watching.

Empire & Victory is one of the best books I have ever read. The story of Joe Pakotas and his riotous journey across the North American Continent is an awesome ride, a tour de force, an American classic in the truest sense. It isn't afraid to be ambitious on a grand scale, and has the heart and faith to tackle subjects cynically judged as passe -- rights of passage, American destiny, freedom, love, and the open road -- with a heady abandon and confidence, as if no novel had ever broached these themes and the record has to be set straight. And it is put forth with such passion and skill, the only books you can compare it to are old and big -- Huck Finn, Look Homeward Angel, Suttree -- books that want to take on so much they burst their seams. Books whose subject is ... America, everything, life. God, it is great and refreshing to read a novel like this. A story that kicks off the old cobwebs of theory and commercial considerations and makes you remember what it is like to discover the world. Hell, if that ain't what novels are for, I think we've forgot.

E&V starts with a bang, recasting an early 70s Michigan-Ohio State football game into a pagan ritual of ecstatic intensity. And continues as Joe Pakotas makes his trek by hook or crook across the country toward the Rose Bowl. It is a pilgrimage as rich, varied and dangerous as the Canterbury Tales. Reading it, I found myself in a state of anticipation as one episode followed the next, wondering if the pace would slow. The sheer number of characters introduced, and the economy and vividness with which they are drawn, is breathtaking -- football coaches, book salesmen, prostitutes, hucksters, religious zealots, hippies, reporters, store clerks, priests, and bus drivers -- all pass before us and instantly ground themselves as real.

There is a throwback quality to the book. There is no sarcasm here, no narrative trickery, no distrust of the medium itself. It is sad that we live in a time that passion is looked upon with a jaundiced eye. Just as the decline of theater has impoverished our acting, the marginalization of poetry has withered our prose. But Ray Murphy has that old time religion. His writing has the clarity and density of 19th century Romantic poetry, as well as the beauty. The prose is so addictive and flows so effortlessly, it colors your consciousness, enriching your view of life. Empire & Victory is exhilarating and revelatory. I can't wait to read it again.

I really like the movie "Newsies" that was made in 1992, so when I found this book at our library, I just had to read it. The only thing bad about this book, is that it doesn't have alot of stuff about the strike. The entrees were only 2 paragraphs long. Other than that I think it was a great book. I like Racetrack, Being that he is my favorite in the movie, and in this book, he's not much differant. he's still a smart alac in the book.

"The Journal of Finn Reardon: A Newsie" was a very interesting book. I'm sure you've either heard of your father or grandfather selling newspapers on the street corner. My father did, so this story brought back the stories he used to tell me as a child. Today, the newspaper is delivered to your front doorstep, or you can buy it at stands or supermarkets. In the early 20th century, you relied on tween and teen boys to get your daily dose of news, and this "My America" book explains the daily lives of these boys. Times were most certainly different, since you could let a 12-year-old work a street corner until dark, without any immediate worries. Each day was a struggle, and the money a family made was used immediately on that day; and to think that the Great Depression hadn't hit yet. If you're interested in journalism and newspapers, then this story is an interesting one. I recommend.

Yet another great My Name Is America book has been published. This one, The Journal of Finn Reardon, take place in 1899 New York. Finn lives with his family in a crowded flat in New York's notorious Lower East Side. In addition to dealing with school, Finn is a newsie. A newsie was the most popular occupation for teen age boys then. Let the author take you on a journey as you learn about Finn's life including gangs, the strike, and his unique friends. You'll really enjoy this book.

This is my very favorite book for young children 2 through 5. Mitchell is a wonderful character. The story is sweet and happy. The illustrations are adorable. Highly, highly recommended.

This is such a sweet story with opportunity to show children how to encourage others. Our 2 year old loves it and asks for it over and over. Why is this not on the classics list yet?

I'm giving this a book a 5 star based on the reaction of my 3 children to the book when each of them discovered it at the age of 3-5 years old. The message and illustration is clear and folksy. A gentle, faithful mailman (who happens to be a dog) and longs for his own mail, delivers a birthday package to Bobby Beaver on a cold and rainy night, then gets a bad cold. His get well letters come in a big sack of mail and there ends the tale. The type is large enough for the child to eventually read on their own and they want to!! This book is similar in tone, simplicity and clarity to Maurice Sendaks Little Bear, or Mazy the Mouse. A quiet refuge for the young and their protectors in an often hectic world. I'm surprised there aren't more books and merchandise for this character, it should be and probably will be a classic one day.